skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> YouTube and TikTok are their real competition

Even in real-time... My wife will literally watch Facebook Reels on her phone while we sit on the couch at night to watch something on Netflix together.

Anyway, I was thinking about this too when the article talked about the data from Amazon showing that viewers preferred stuff from the 90s and 00s over their newly produced content: How are Netflix, Amazon, etc. doing with young adults? If the audience is all Millennials and Gen-X folks, because Gen-Z folks are exclusively watching short-form video instead, it would make sense that stuff from the 90s and 00s would be the most popular. Like I think this is a well-established phenomenon with music, where a person's lifelong preferences will be fixed on whatever they first heard during their high school or college years. I will absolutely pay for a streaming service that gives me access to all the movies and TV series from, say, 1990-2015 and never adds any new content.
Especially compared to one of their core competitors in the US market: Amazon Music.

I don't know who pissed off who in the world of Amazon, but I'm shocked at how broken the Amazon Music app has been for the last few years. Random stops in the streaming, weird behavior on flagship phones after the app has been in the background for a while, their app store reviews tell more.

At the very least they fixed a (long-standing) bug that caused the scrollbar to conflict with side panel UI elements, making it stop/halt when you tried to view long lists of songs. Their fix was: remove the scroll.

FWIW, I prefer YT Music simply because the same app on the same phone works beautifully. It ain't perfect (my favorite is the random cross-talk with YouTube at times on 'likes', or when I occasionally see the interface change for a particular song in my play list), but I don't have to reset stuff just to listen to a few tracks in a row.
What do you mean the "vagrant moment"?
Creating a throwaway account for simplicity. I was/am a hiring manager, mostly for startups.

Market is rough right now for sure but I also want to share some flags I’d personally note when looking at your website / LinkedIn.

1. You have experience in a lot of technologies, which sometimes is good, but can also be the case where you don’t have expertise in any of them.
2. According to LinkedIn since 2016 most of your gigs were about a year long. You also had a lead engineer gig that lasted eight months. I’m sure you put more info about it in your resume but it’s a pretty big flag considering that it spans not only the downturn but boom periods as well.
3. No well known companies in your list. I know it sucks that pedigree matters so much in our industry but it does.
4. Political posts / complaining on LinkedIn. Having dealt with political stuff at work (from both sides of the isle) it’s such a pain in the ass that my risk management alert kicks in.
5. I see you’re in Denver. Are you applying only for remote gigs? Sadly, a lot of companies are doing RTO and probably not in your area.

Hope this helps a bit. Hope things improve for you soon.
People have predicted that for years, but so far it looks like Netflix is still one of the few that manage to do streaming profitably.

Turns out that catering to dumb consumer zombies is still a safe bet.
Zero-cost semantic search engine using Cloudflare Workers
People want to spend less time on a task. Whichever tool succeeds at this will win.
The question of course is how well that level of quality will hold up now that more and more of the internet is AI generated, and said AI generated content is being sourced for said AI tools. It feels like our choices are either to only get information from a certain time period or earlier, or to accept the information provided by Open AI and co is only going to get worse and worse over time...
The language of the article implies that Spotify rips artists off while their executives earn millions.

The problem is the millions the executives make do not come directly from Spotify's revenue, they come from stocks which are only loosely related.

Don't get me wrong, Spotify has many issues. And should be rightfully criticized. but if you are going to parody them makes sure it is a humoristic pretence that most people would understand. Juxtaposing CEO stock selling revenue with how much artists actually make, is more misleading than it is humoristic - as stocks prices are merely loosely linked to company income, and by extension loosely linked to the artist's cut.

So I would assume that if a case to be made for taking down the website - it is because it did not convey it is a parody and was edging defamation.
We have duo for my wife and I, so Spotify is £8.50/month each. Apple Music is £11/mo.

60% of my listening is through a pair of AirPods over Bluetooth, 30% on a Sonos system and 10% using semi decent wired headphones. Lossless isn’t something that is a differentiator for me.

I have some music on both Spotify and Apple Music - the reality is that even with a few thousand streams per month we haven’t even made back the cost of 2 hours of rehearsal space. The reality is that for artists making a living off this, the problem isn’t the difference between 75 and 80% that Spotify holds onto, it’s the fact that the artist only sees 15-20% of what’s left over.
Honestly having one single dedicated F key for jumping anywhere to a class or method definition is, for me, a killer feature that most alternatives lack. I do a lot of kinds of development with Vim, but for certain languages I find it a far better experience to use a language specific IDE.
LSPs visually warns you the instant you forget a semicolon, so that error will only happen when you don't use LSPs.
Requiring applicants to pay a fee will mean that the positions that I have to apply for that either do not exist, or are opened "just in case", or are market research, or the COA positions to push internal candidates, or any one of countless similar positions, will require me to pay out of pocket. Not exactly fair from my perspective.
Your response comes across as racist even if you did not intend it that way. Very much a "us civilized noble Europeans vs those Asiatic / brown savages" vibe.
I love the imagination here and imagination in general but the framing really stretches it... I think this whole article would be more substantive if it was a little more grounded in the concept of induction.

Well and if it would admit very openly that in the sentence "numbers are leaves" the word "are" is about the existence of an isomorphism between the natural numbers and a series of nested sets... but that it's far from the only isomorphism, induction is everywhere in math and computer science. I imagine some little kid reading this and clinging to a reductionist idea that "numbers are (only) leaves", but they aren't just leaves.

Anyhow the setup is really nice and inspiring, it just ended up feeling like a tease. Hope to see a followup!
Serious question - is there no "lite" version of bulletproof hosting where they're not as willing to host e.g. silk road but happy to throw cease and desists by the likes of Spotify for this sort of nonsense in the bin? Surely this is a good opportunity for some enterprising Russians? With how relations are nowadays, it's hard to imagine Putin would give a toss.
What do you want to see in the playlist behavior? I admit I build them without much effort in YT Music and never felt constricted, but I may be missing out.
By people comments it seems that rockets loaded with fragmentation warheads leave the same traces that can be seen in the photos of the tail of the plane, high velocity impacts, a damage very similar to what happened with MH17 flight as someone commented below.

The problem with the approaches probably was due the GPS was suffering spoofing[1], so the same way the avionics was receiving wrong data, can be guessed everyone was receiving wrong data, their "mistake" attack could have come from there, in addition, they did not close the air space to the civil planes, for unknown reasons. They will never admit exactly how they screwed it up, using what happened with MH17 as reference.

But an important matter here also is, even by diverting the plane with a declared emergency to cross the Caspian Sea, the pilots managed to arrive to the coast[3], and the GPS jamming across TWO-THIRDS of the Caspian Sea[2][1] what would have prevented finding survivors and fuselage evidences, had no effect. Now it can be investigated.

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/azerbaijan-airlines-e190-...

[2] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/4k-az65#3879c26d

[3] Fighting to control and keep the plane flying, as the 3D image in the flightradar24 article[1] shows, rendered from the ADS-B data at moment the GPS jamming stopped. One can see at first glance how hard it was for them to cross the sea. The investigations and the black box will tell better what happened before.
Thanks -

I agree that I think the "white male" thing might primarily be getting pushed by white nationals on X (and since I'm a white male, my experiences will of course relate to white males). That's why I'm curious about demographics.

Vivek didn't call out white males either, he called out Americans and bashed our culture while stating we need more foreign workers. I understand the point he and Elon are attempting to make, but I believe they simply want cheap labor. If the market is so bad for Americans, why do we need more immigrants in tech?
The Yahooification of Googles search becomes more amusing when one considers that it is now led buy the dude who ran Yahoo search to the ground.
Religion was always just fine thank you. The problematic part is extremists misrepresenting it as a cudgel with which to silence dissent. Let’s not pretend there aren’t extremists in both tribes doing this.
Request for Startup: Kill HackerRank, CodeSignal, Coderbyte
Web-based IDEs used in HackerRank, CodeSignal, Coderbyte etc interrupt flow [1]. Local IDEs chosen by the candidate don't.

I want to see coding assessment software that runs with the candidate's local text-editor instead of a web-based IDE.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508
YouTube is also a vast repository of conspiracy bullshit with a recommender algorithm that is happy to start feeding you as much of it as you can autoplay.
Based on what you said, IMHO may I say this is just a way to disqualifying hime, as he cannot enter into the round in time. That is effective disqualifying. Do not know details but losing a whole round ... can he recover even. Hence, I still ok with disqualifying.

I am not sure knowing the rule but really have jean ... it is crazy rule in any case.
Risky US cities are pretty risky though. Which is why I said that.
As a hiring manager, I've chosen to opt out of this system altogether. Instead of public postings, I just poll my network and post job announcements in private channels in my professional community. Much higher signal-to-noise ratio.
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A synapse is the reference for FMA operations, not a whole neuron.

> A single cell can act as an intelligent little animal on its own, they are nothing like a neural network "neuron".

Unless any of those things contribute to human intelligence, they do not matter in this context.

Cool, sure. Interesting, yes. But only important to exactly the degree to which any of that makes the human they're in smarter or dumber.

To the extent they're independently intelligent, they're the homunculi in Searle's Chinese Room.

> And note that all neurons act in parallel, so they are billions times more parallel than GPU's even if the operations would be the same.

Order of ten million times faster on a linear basis while still a thousand parallel operations.
The hardest part for me in using nvim for java is the debugger tooling. I primarily use IntelliJ for any JVM related languages, and the debugger has always been invaluable. The debugging has always felt more polished and easy to configure in JetBrains IDEs. The nvim-dap and nvim-dap-ui had a bit too much friction to configure for it to my liking, and inevitably I reverted to IntelliJ. However, I love the keyboard-driven flow I can achieve in nvim where JetBrains IDEs fall short.
I installed Fedora 39 a few months ago. It was kinda working. I had some issues that I couldn't fix, but they weren't strong dealbreakers. I didn't install Fedora 40, because you know, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. But in November it started to complain during boot that Fedora 39 is not supported anymore, it's time to move on.

So a few weeks ago I updated to Fedora 41. (Updating from N-2 -> N is supposed to be fully supported)

I wasn't surprised that it broke my nvidia driver's dkms integration - I don't expect any distro to test their integration of the market leader GPU manufacturer. Whatever, it wasn't hard to fix.

So during the first night I kick off a long job. In the morning I turn on the screen to see what's going on: the system was suspended. When I wake it up, the screen is also locked. That was weird, as I have disabled all power mgment features, and I have also passwordless autologin on this machine. Then looking at some of the logs, it turned out that xdg-desktop-portal segfaulted in the middle of the night, which in turn killed all user sessions and processes and logged me out. And then it ignored my powermgmt settings, and sent the machine to sleep.

Well, that was cool, so I googled a bunch, unsuccessfully. Meanwhile I kicked off the job again, and it finished by the evening. I hoped that it was a one time thing. 2 days later it happened again, and another 3 days later one more time. And this service is not something that you can disable easily.

I stopped using Fedora about 3 weeks ago. Will try again maybe at a later point.

(There are always responses saying "it works for me" - I'm sure it does. I wrote my own experiences.)
The I stands for Integrated. Although technically I think the big 3 Java IDEs are written as a pile of plugins largely to support multiple languages. But they do tend to feel more "integrated"/look more cohesive. I guess the point is that if you feel like opening a text file in something it's a text editor. If you don't it might be an idea. I do try to open up individual text files outside of a project in pycharm sometimes but usually it feels weird. Maybe that's why they added scratch files. Somehow shift+shift new scratch file json and copy/pasting feels easier then making a new file outside your project with the IDE
That is true, I won't argue there.
Direct link to the report's PDF: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-...
Even the worst European system looks good compared to New Zealand. We just started a 32 day closure of all train lines in Auckland, the first of 96 planned for the year.
They aren’t far off needing press releases for when trains a running.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/537619/auckland-rail-shu...
His edge in rapid/blitz is generally seen as much larger than in classical.

One of the biggest examples of this was in his title defense against Caruana. Every game of that match had been drawn, and in the final game Magnus had a very promising position where he could squeeze with basically no risk.

Instead he offered a draw which was immediately accepted. That sent the game to rapid tie breaks where he casually butchered Caruana 3-0.
Is it really so bad to run it twice, with cat/bat replaced with sh on the second pass? If you're really paranoid about it you could save the first run to a file, so you know for certain that the server didn't do a switcheroo for the second one, but if you think about it, that's a low-payout move for Bad Guy #N compared to just sending the pwnage the first time around.

This is beside the fact that we're talking about downloading and running a user-owned binary, which, unlike the shell script, is impractical to inspect in any detail, and has the same privileges as the shell script we're supposed to worry about.

I view "don't curl to shell" as about 90% theatrics basically. Sure, read it first, I do in fact do that. But it's a silly 'very hard rule'.
Who are you to say that is wrong? Everyone has their own preference for what they like to see in art, and one man's preference is no more correct than another.
Simple NES emulator using C++ and SDL2
That's still considered to be primarily Russia's doing, with an interesting new detail:

> On 17 December 2024 the Russian Navy sea rescue tug Yevgeniy Churov[36] was reported to have approached the anchored Yi Peng 3, passing it at very low speed and with its own AIS transmitter turned off.

The next day, investigators were finally allowed to board.
> Enter 2024 with AI. The top 20% of search results are a wall of text from AI...

I'll be the contrarian here and say I actually like Google's AI Overview? For the first time in a long time, I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer.

Google is finally useful again. That said, once Google screws with this and starts making search challenging again, as it has been for years, I'll go elsewhere.
Threads (1984) — fair warning: brutal and traumatic

Snowpiercer (2013)

Melancholia (2011)

When the Wind Blows (1986)
But is it a chosen identity or an identity imposed by circumstances of birth? In any case, focusing on identity leads to identity politics and (at least anecdotally) bad outcomes.

I believe that countries should be based on citizenship without any assumptions of shared identity, values, or culture. There will always be citizens who don't fit in, no matter which policies the country chooses to pursue. But with reasonably free immigration, those people could at least try their luck elsewhere.
These people can vote against this kind of zoning and can vote for transit and densification. But instead they show up in droves to city council meetings to fight against it as much as they can. They keep choosing to move further outwards once public transit expands and "the wrong people" start moving in. They complain about the neighborhood "losing its character".

You've got your head in the sand if you think these people don't exist in large numbers in suburban USA.

A few of the member cities of DART have talked about reducing funding to public transit. For a lot of the people I know, they say "great!". You act like these people don't exist.
It's from the book by Carlsson and Leijonhufvud. Perhaps Spotify uses ML today, but the key insight from the book was that no ML was needed to build a recommender system. You can just show people songs from custom playlists curated by powerusers. So when your playlist ends you find other high quality playlists that overlap with the music you just listened to. Then you blend those playlists and enqueue new tracks. This is from memory so I might have gotten the details wrong, but I remember that this approach worked like magic and solved the issues with the ML system (bland or too random recommendations). No reason to use ML when you already have millions of manually curated playlists.
SEO ruined the web, guided by Google's ranking algorithm.

Things will get even worse as scammy companies start flooding the web with LLM generated content pushing their products to bias LLMs to increase the probability of outputing their name for keywords related to their business.
chatGPT offers bullshit answers faster, and more confidently. However the issue for openAI is the cost of business is _horrifically_ expensive.

Sure they charge some users for premium access, but they aren't currently enough to cover costs.

openAI needs a step change in performance, and that meta doesn't release an open-source version of it and a step change in compute efficiency.
What kills me with JetBrains is they work on a barely functional (according to vim coders I talk to) simulation plugin, instead of just investing resources into integrating Neovim as a backend via plugin. You can literally have all the niceness of JetBrains IDEs with the editing power of Neovim. That alone would flip so many die hard Vim users.
> HUD officials say another key factor was the recent increase in asylum seekers coming to the U.S., often fleeing dangerous conditions in their home countries.

This feels like another "safe and effective" talking point.
So, as a company, when can I pay OpenAI to twist its responses towards my company?

Because it will happen. I’m afraid that ChatGPT is my friend for 20€ today, but prices will increase and response quality will go the way of Siri.
I for one love the “wall of ai” this author decries. It is super helpful for most of the questions I ask. I don’t know why he doesn’t like it.
It would be great if it wasn't completely wrong 50% of the time.
> The other stuff doesn’t go away, this is in addition.

They could add a tag saying if you need to pay attention to the show or not. Currently it isn't very different from the other stuff just disappearing.
Yes! Spotify evidently does something. You can watch the Netflix show, that takes the original approach to explaining its success from the different angles of key people involved, to review one of the best approaches to answering this question for a company I’ve ever seen.

In a world where musicians and listeners have all the other choices to connect still, IMO Spotify completely deserves its position. I detest the low effort complaints by ppl on Reddit saying their financial success is not deserved.
I dearly miss intermissions at movie theaters. The theater I went to as a kid had them, and I can't understand why nobody else does. It's so useful to have the chance to get up and use the bathroom, or get a snack/drink, without missing part of the movie.
This looks really neat, I'm curious if you know if it's possible to get a UN and UL certified battery for some of the upcoming regulations requiring that in certain states, given that someone can open it up and swap out the cells?
Definitely agree, but I'm surprised Perplexity wasn't mentioned in this post. It's currently Perplexity Vs. Google
I don’t know. We could look for some other word to encode “often sub-conscious though sometimes explicit heuristics developed by long periods of experiencing the consequences of specific trade-offs” but “taste” seems like a pretty good one because it’s quite intuitive.

There often - usually? - are more than one good solution and more than one path to success, and I don’t find calling different good engineers making different choices primarily because of their past experiences an egregious misuse of language.
How many of these are newly illegal immigrants? May be heartless to say that, but one cannot take them all. Obviously winter time and we should have mercy. But there are limits.
And Nicolas Bourbaki's "Éléments de mathématique".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
Our world is increasingly defined by software without correctness proofs. Our tools are too clumsy, and we're just not smart enough, so we accept this situation. AI-verified code could become one of the most economically important applications of machine learning, when we cross the threshold where this becomes feasible.

I'm a mathematician, and we struggle with the purpose of a proof: Is it to verify, or also to explain so we can generalize? Machine proofs tend to be inscrutable.

While "the singularity" is unlikely anytime soon, we should recall that before the first atomic test there were calculations to insure that we didn't ignite the atmosphere. We're going to need proofs that we have control of AI, and there's an obvious conflict of interest in trusting AI's say so here. We need to understand these proofs.